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[juniberries]

WHO: Team Voltron
WHERE: The Castle of Lion's Bridge
WHEN: 2/11
WHAT: The team's first official meeting while in the Eluvio's fleet. Allura gives the low-down about what the newcomers have missed.
WARNINGS: Mentions of Oros; death/planet obliteration/refugees/etc.


[The arrival of Coran, Keith, Pidge, and Lance had been a muddled mix of relief, concern, and confusion. While Coran seemed to have been taken from the exact moment both Shiro and her remember, the others...appear to have been taken from different points in time. This calls into question the nature of these anomalies, and also the vague glimmer of...she hesitates to call it hope, but it's something that at least changes her concerns about being here while the Galra are still terrorizing the universe she knows.

But, even if their being here apparently does not change what happens back in their familiar universe, the nature of the Eluvio, these anomalies, and the missions they've so far gone through still effect them while they're here, and as proven by the failed mission of Oros and the loss of an entire planet and thousands of lives, these missions effect far more than just the crew.

So, Allura has called for a meeting, already having discussed the basics with Coran. She's talked in length about Oros as the others sit in their stations on the Bridge, discussing key facts about the missions at large, that teams had been sent down to retrieve a Relic they still know little of, how other teams had been sent down to research and observe the planet, its natives, and its ecosystem as large. How the retrieval of the Relic, while successful, had ultimately failed,something triggering nuclear explosions which rendered Oros, the planet and its natives, doomed to ultimate destruction. Something which no doubt had to do with the Eluvio teams having been on the planet.

Her tone is even, but harsh, when she talks of the crew only being able to save around a hundred Trilk and Fek before Oros was completely obliterated, that she had tried to bring the Castle-ship down to the planet in an attempt to save more lives, only to be forcibly denied by higher ups of the Eluvio's crew.

And with that, she makes the gathered files of the mission available for the rest of the team to look at in their own time, highlighting the importance of interacting with the refugee Fek and Trilk.

She stands at her hub, hands clasped behind her.]

I am...sorry that I had to tell you all this, but I feel that you must all be informed of what has happened before you arrived here.

I do not trust the Eluvio and its pre-existing crew in the slightest.



((OOC NOTE: please feel free to make your own top levels! Characters can explicitly ask Allura questions, or talk amongst themselves!))

Comments

[coran]

[ What a place this would be, if everyone could have giant robot lions and a laser-armed castle. Probably a cooler place. ]

You can't expect to look after all of them if you don't remember to look after yourselves, too!

[ Can Coran pointedly look at every single other person in this room? Physically, no, probably impossible. Still, that's the spirit in his words, lacking in their standard level of excitability though they may be. ]

But you do have a point.

[bayarm]

[ probably cooler, maybe also more dangerous because there's people everywhere who would abuse having that kind of power at their fingertips. ]

Right. [ watch shiro agree while not really internalizing the point. ] There's some people here who've never held a weapon or been in a fight. I don't want them getting hurt.

[coran]

[ Incredible. It flew right over Shiro's head, like a delicate ribbon caught in a sudden breeze.

Well.

They'll have time to work on that yet. ]

There's no shortage of advanced training facilities out here. Maybe this fleet can work together to organize some training for beginners!

[bayarm]

[ it sure did. ]

I've been thinking about that. Self-defence classes, that kind of thing.

[coran]

Could be useful to get into that. If we can't control the situations everyone's going to get into, we can at least make sure everyone is better prepared to respond to them! Otherwise you're just signing on for a lot of chaos and angry shouting next time things get out of hand.

[bayarm]

Chaos and shouting and worst case scenario, people dying.

[ some of the situations people have already been in make shiro think that they have to be prepared. and it seems that the crew is happy enough to throw those here because of the anomalies to the wolves. ]

[coran]

-- well yes, there's that, too! [ There's a point in life when all you can do is throw on a show for good cheer. Coran knows that point intimately. ]

[bayarm]

[ there's something grounding about coran's cheer. the earth turns, water is wet, coran is cheerful. shiro knows it isn't that simple, and yet, it's something he's already gotten used to. it earns coran a smile, now. ]

So, classes. Have you taught any before?

[coran]

I taught you Paladins a thing or two, didn't I? I think I could handle helping out a few of our fellow passengers!

[ Honestly Coran that isn't worth much on your resume. Like at all. ]

[bayarm]

[ honestly? it's good enough for shiro. coran did teach them more than just a thing or two. it might have been three or even four things!! ]

That's good to hear.